SEGA's new trailer for the zombie-ridden Yakuza: Dead Souls skips the foreplay of human connection and solidarity. The shambling hordes come first, picking their way through Tokyo's red light district with a hunger for human flesh… and bone marrow, and organs, and brains.

Fans of splatter-house gore will enjoy gameplay footage of what seems like a very mobile third-person shooter. Only after the wanton violence on zombies big and small does the soundtrack kick back in, revealing a distinct but just as considerable threat for the player.

Yakuza: Dead Souls hits shelves sometime in March 2012.

(I initially erroneously stated that developer Toshihiro Nagoshi wasn't on this project, but it turns out he is. Apologies.)